The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-24

STATISTICS before the convention Tor
the advancement of science show that
there has been an enormous increase
in blindness in the country.
THE next republican national con-
vention will nominate candidate for
the republican party rather than for a
handful of Independents. - Boston
Journal.
ACCORDING to a report issued by the
Dun Mercantile Agency the new high
license law in Minnesota is likely to re-
duce the number of saloons in that
state one-half.
ACCORDING to the Boston Herald,
every mugwump sheep goes over the
wall by itself. Perhaps; but it lands
in the democratic pasture every time
Portland Cypress.
GEORGE O. JONES, the surviving
member of the greenback party in New
York, has issued call to himself to
hold convention September %, to
| nominate state ticket.
THE Springfield Union remarks that
President Cleveland's great western
tour is to be arranged in the form of
parachute to prevent his boom from
coming down with dull, sickening thud.
AT prohibition picnic in Pennsyl-
vania, last week, the irrepressible St.
John said that he placed the RESPONSE
bility for the great evils of the rum
trade at the door of the Christian church.
THE Atlanta Constitution recalls the
singular fact that in the southern con-
federacy there was no supreme court,
the establishment of such tribunal
being vigorously and successfully re-
sisted by the extreme state rights men.
THE Quincy advertiser, abiding to
the surprising information given by the
city papers that Mrs. Cleveland
walks" thinks the city dailies can no
longer ridicule the country press for
telling when man shingles his house.
EVIDENCES are multiplying on every
hand pointing to the rapid decline of
the Knights of Labor. Master Work
man Powderly denies with much vehe-
mence the statement that the order is
breaking up, but the facts are against
him.
OUT of one hundred thirty-three
counties which have reported in Texas
the prohibitionists carried only twenty
four, by 4,G75 majority, while the
"anti's" carried one hundred nine
counties, by 81 ,593 majority, leaving
76,91S majority against prohibition.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN, the city at
torney of Bridgeport, refuses to prose-
cute complaints against the owners of
dogs who have not been muzzed this
hot weather, as the law requires. -
NeU York Star. Why should owners
of dogs be muzzled at any season of the
year?
A STUDENT at Vanderbilt University,
in Tennessee, has just beat the worlds
record in high kicking, having sue
ceeded in hitting a mark at the height
of nine feet, three and one-half inches.
The record he has made in his studies
is not given; probably it is not consid
cred Of much account.
THE Jacksonville Times Union, which
is the leading democratic paper in
Florida, declares that there never has
been a time since the re-estabishment
of the mail service, directly after the
war, when the mail service of Florida
was as rotten, disorganized, democrat
lied and Enthusiastically as it is to-
day."
IN Idaho the legislature has en-
deavored to protect the institutions of
the territory against Mormon influence
by prescribing test oath, which dis
franchises not only polygamists but
every member of the Mormon Church.
About $500 Mormons, in total voting
population of 1900, are thus disfran-
chised.
THE interstate commerce law is de-
fective in still another point. 1t does
not require the conductor to call pas
senger a hog who appropriates two
whole seats to himself when the car is
crowded. The law leaves it for the
other passengers to do this, and it
sometimes makes bad feeling .-DetroH
Tribune.
THE Louisville Corier-Jomnal is
disposed to admit that the republican
party " can no longer be treated with
Indifference in Kentucky; and a
correspondent of the New York EUen-
ing Post names number of Kentucky
mountain towns in which, he says, the
returns read as if they came from towns
in Vermont.
IN the first year of his term the Presi-
dent followed the programme which
had been laid out, but the ambition for
reelection has led him to throw over
his original plan, and he has submitted
to be bullied by southern men, power
full in the party, whom it was necessary
to conciliate and fatal to Offend
Ne,oburyport Herald.
THE governor has appointed Hon.